When Larry Bond was working as an intelligence analyst, an insurance agent living in rural Maryland said that he was writing a novel about submarines, and wanted to ask him some questions. The insurance agent was Tom Clancy, and the novel was "The Hunt for Red October." And the rest is history.

MIck contains within himself, within his persona as a performer, oppositions that he does not wish to resolve. We can't resolve them, either, so the line from "Sympathy for the Devil" that goes "what's puzzling you is just the nature of my game" is both ironic and accurate.